NYC Transit Strike

**voltz** · 20 Dec 2005, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by Revoltor

When can we start assaulting these people?

Which do you mean, the operaters or the system?

**Drewbacca** · 20 Dec 2005, 08:07 PM

Meh, I don't care. Sucks for you bitches, though. Oh and Merry Christmas and all of that jazz.

p.s. The union workers feel their work isn't appreciated, so telling them all to go unemployed really isn't helping matters. I'm not sure why they need to feel their work is appreciated.

**Revoltor** · 20 Dec 2005, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by voltz

Which do you mean, the operaters or the system?

Members of the TWU.

**ChaoofNee** · 20 Dec 2005, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew

p.s. The union workers feel their work isn't appreciated, so telling them all to go unemployed really isn't helping matters. I'm not sure why they need to feel their work is appreciated.

Nobody's work is ever appreciated. Welcome to planet Earth, TWU.

**anish** · 20 Dec 2005, 09:35 PM

Originally Posted by voltz

No, I'm talking about people with this kind of experiance waiting at the chance to get a job in the case of an emergancy. You don't get paid when you're not on the card.

C'mon this is new york, people should be hiring all the time.

Voltz, what you are saying still doesn't make sense. These aren't unskilled jobs like those in the steel mills, meat packing plants, clothing manafacturing plants of ~120 years ago. Using strikebreakers is very difficult when the entire TWU is sitting it out. There's job training, management, administrative infrastructure, on the level of probably tens of thousands of employees.

I just find it hard to imagine there is an entirely capable, trained, experienced work force sitting at home that can be "called in" to replace the transit workers. What are these people doing in the meantime?

That said, I think the TWU is rediculous. They've got their hand on NYC's gonads, and they know they just have to give them a squeeze to get a raise, benefits, etc. I think subways need more automation, robots can't complain about increased wages, their metallic hearts only know how to move trains (and possibly kill all humans?)

**George** · 20 Dec 2005, 10:18 PM

I don't think punishing the workers will do any good. The union heads need to get straightened out. Many of the transit workers didn't really WANT to strike, but were forced into the matter. It's either quit or strike, and most of them, I imagine, just want to get back to work.

**Galaxia** · 21 Dec 2005, 12:14 AM

This strike thing is fucking stupid. I'm watching the news right now and there were people waiting in 2-3 hour lines to leave the city and go back to Long Island.

I feel no sympathy for any of these MTA workers right now. Fucking greedy bastards is what they are. Someone has to bend, and I don't care who the hell it is.

**burgundy** · 21 Dec 2005, 01:04 PM

Eh, I don't think it's fair to blame any individual worker...they're more fucked by this than anyone else. The union leadership, sure, but the workers have very little choice in this.